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- FENCE POST. No. 247,732. m Patented Sept. 27,1881.

UNITED STATES,

PATENT OFFICE. a

LYMAN LUOE AND OASSIUS M. WILDER, OF KINGSVILLE, OHIO, ASSIGNOBS TO KINGSVILLE WROUGHT IRON FENCE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

FENCE-POST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,732, dated September 27, 1881.

Application filed August 16, 1881. (Modem erence marked thereon, making a part of this specification. I

This invention relates to certain improvements in fence-posts; and it has for its objects to provide certain means whereby the posts may be supported and adjusted vertically and laterally, as more fully hereinafter specified. These objects we attain by the devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in

which.

Figure 1 represents a perspectwe view showing our invention complete, and Fig. 2 a detached detailed perspective view.

The letter A indicates a base, constructed preferably of metal, supporting an upright, B, constructed of a fiat strip of metal, bent as indicated at C, so as to form a flat bearing for the fence-post D. The base is slotted longitudinally at E, in which slot the lower end of the fence-post D is loosely secured. The-said erally or vertically with respect to said standard and securely held in such adjusted position. The base A may be secured in any desired position to any suitable support.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patcut, is-

In combination with the base and its standard, constructed as described, the standard being provided with a horizontal slot and the base with a longitudinal slot, the slotted fencepost setting in the slot in thebase,and the slide secured to the post by means of a clampingscrew passing through the slots in the post and standard and the clampiugnut on said screw, whereby the post may be adjusted verticall y and laterally, substantially as specified.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands this 28th day LYMAN LUOE. OASSIUS M. WILDER. Witnesses:

M. W. WRIGHT, ELIZABETH ScoFIELn.

of July, 1881. 

